Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 118.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• "These excavations all included a Late Pleistocene biota, but assignment of exact ages is impossible in most cases because most of the Pierce beetle specimens are without stratigraphic data."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1954. Fossil arthropods of California no. 18. The Tenebrionidae-Tentyriinae of the asphalt deposits. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 53:35-45 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161534: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Insecta | |
Coniontis elliptica3, "Coniontis abdominalis" = Coniontis abdominalis3, "Coniontis abdominalis" = Coniontis abdominalis1, "Coniontis abdominalis" = Coniontis abdominalis1, "Coniontis rugosa" = Coniontis abdominalis3, Nyctoporis carinata, Apsena rufipes2, Apsena pubescens2, Apsena laticornis2
"Coniontis abdominalis" = Coniontis abdominalis1 LeConte 1859 darkling beetle ssp. interrupta (S9090)
"Coniontis abdominalis" = Coniontis abdominalis1 LeConte 1859 darkling beetle ssp. asphalti (S9076, S9077)
Nyctoporis carinata LeConte 1851 darkling beetle | |